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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-645/
- Published: 2022-09-16T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-16T03:02:39.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Media, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> **Tributes are flowing for a Tauranga man described as a “media pioneer”.**  
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> **Sun Media co-owner and director Brian Rogers passed away this week, following a five year battle with cancer.**  
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> [Following news of his death](https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/302847-brian-rogers-sails-off-into-sunset.html?ref=goodoil.news), people have shared their memories and thoughts of Brian, aka Roger Rabbits.  
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> Former National Party leader Simon Bridges – a contributor to The Weekend Sun for many years in his capacity as MP for Tauranga – paid tribute to Rogers’ “laugh-out-loud but cutting” style.  
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> “Brian was an independent media pioneer who managed to be hugely successful in the business year after year when many others couldn’t,” says Simon.  
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> “This was through business savvy, providing readers with what they wanted – as radical as that was – and his wicked sense of humour. His Rogers Rabbits column was often laugh-out-loud funny while cutting all at once.  
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> SunLive

[Read more here. ](https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/302895-tauranga-media-pioneer-remembered.html?ref=goodoil.news)Discuss it on *The BFD.*

Below are a couple of the many articles by Brian Rogers that we have republished with Brian’s permission over the years.

> [Cluster Puck](https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/09/21/cluster-puck/?ref=goodoil.news)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/220916-love-your-pet-day-2108-brian-rogers-flo-4.jpg)

Brian Rogers died after a five-year battle with cancer on September 14, 2022, surrounded by his family, music, laughter and his dog.

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